“We’re only just beginning to understand the full majesty of life on Earth,” wrote the founding members of the Earth BioGenome Project in 2018. The ambitious project raised eyebrows when first ...
Image: Ceroglossus ochsenii, a beetle in the family Carabidae, photographed near Cucao, Chile. Copyright 2006 David R. Maddison Click here for a high resolution ...
All life on Earth shares a common ancestor that lived roughly four billion years ago. This so-called “last universal common ancestor” represents the most ancient organism that researchers can study.
Some people dream of exploring other planets or the ocean depths. Some want to understand how the universe began or the fundamental forces inside an atom. Harris Lewin has a different goal: to read ...